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Fan Base: Pink
Member Since: 7/22/2012
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We love Princess and the Frog. Princess Tiana is our hero: She wanted to be a chef and save up all her money and work hard to have a restaurant, so we’re into that,” says Pink.
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She just can't think about anything else than cooking, can she?
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Member Since: 7/22/2012
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She followed Tobias Jesso Jr recently, who produced Alive by Sia and Adele's When We Were Young.
I have a feeling her next album will be This is Acting/1000 Forms of Fear/25/TTAL mashup.
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Member Since: 6/24/2012
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Originally posted by pinktennisfreak
She followed Tobias Jesso Jr recently, who produced Alive by Sia and Adele's When We Were Young.
I have a feeling her next album will be This is Acting/1000 Forms of Fear/25/TTAL mashup.
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yikes. where's the vomit bucket?
btw, love your avi <3
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Member Since: 8/10/2012
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Originally posted by pinktennisfreak
She followed Tobias Jesso Jr recently, who produced Alive by Sia and Adele's When We Were Young.
I have a feeling her next album will be This is Acting/1000 Forms of Fear/25/TTAL mashup.
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When We Were Young is amazing.
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Member Since: 2/6/2014
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Originally posted by pinktennisfreak
She followed Tobias Jesso Jr recently, who produced Alive by Sia and Adele's When We Were Young.
I have a feeling her next album will be This is Acting/1000 Forms of Fear/25/TTAL mashup.
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That sounds good, I hope she delivers a great pop rock ballad like Sober with strong emotions and feelings
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Member Since: 7/22/2012
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Originally posted by Grenn-O
yikes. where's the vomit bucket?
btw, love your avi <3
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Originally posted by alrightsir
When We Were Young is amazing.
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There are much better songs on 25 imo.
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Member Since: 8/10/2012
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Originally posted by pinktennisfreak
There are much better songs on 25 imo.
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Million Years Ago and All I Ask are good, too. But I love the nostalgic & bittersweet lyrics of WWWY. I could totally imagine P!nk doing that song.
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Member Since: 6/24/2012
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i've only listened to 25 once straight through and not one thing stood out to me. i don't think it's a very good album and pretty much meddles in meh-territory. also pink has a better voice that can do a hell of a lot more, so, for god's sake, choose to take advantage of it again, woman!
i'm hoping, hoping, hoping pink won't go down that 25 route or repeat ttal... and if sia produces a song, let's pray and hope it won't be the typical annoying sia scream-a-thon.
and i need another sex song.
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The only 25 song I could imagine P!nk on is Million Years Ago.
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Member Since: 7/22/2012
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Pink once tapped into previously unexplored territory on 2001’s wonderfully self-deprecating “Don’t Let Me Get Me”, when the gruff chart mega-hitter sang about dating her teachers and not being as pretty as “damn Britney Spears.” This was all relatable and good, but something was nagging about it; for lack of a less clichéd term regarding female artists, it was “confessional,” all about dispensing with the façade that pop stars operate at a more invincible level of self-esteem than the rest of us. You could call “Don’t Let Me Get Me” the blueprint for Kesha Rose Sebert, who wrote a song about seducing a teacher and also one for damn Britney Spears. But more importantly, her icebreaker to the world was that she brushes her teeth with a bottle of Jack.
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http://www.spin.com/2016/02/kesha-dr...t-allegations/
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Member Since: 9/11/2010
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Just give us a new single already!
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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Just give me 'White Rabbit'. I'll be satisfied for a half year at least.
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Member Since: 7/15/2012
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Originally posted by Tylerbv
The video link isn't working
One Foot Wrong was never one of my favourite until recently. The vocals at the end are so good.
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Whoopsie, this one here should work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYpahPcTME
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Originally posted by alrightsir
Max is for hit songs. You can't go Mariah all over because people won't like it (see Christina Aguilera)
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Screamtina is no real comparison though, I can't think of any other singer (okay, maybe Jessie J) who has received much backlash for using...or overusing.. her powerhouse vocals. While on the other hand, there's still people like Bey, Adele, Sia etc who are getting praised all the time and have huge success with it. Of course she shouldn't do it whenever she opens her mouth but she can + should definitely do it more often imo
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She is my inspiration for everything,” says the singer. “I think of little girls like her when I’m doing something like this because I want it to be fun. I think of that spirit Willow has, where she’s totally uninhibited and wants to dance around naked, and that’s how I go into the song.”
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Nooooo another dance song?? Why not just screw that mess before the movie comes out and instead, just quickly get Carey to impregnate her so that she can transform all those fresh, motherly emotions into Bridge Of Light's worthy successor? ....oh and eventually finish the slayage with a powerful live performance a la Kelly Clarkson? Is that really too much to ask???
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Originally posted by Grenn-O
and i need another sex song.
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Fixed it for you honey
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Member Since: 6/24/2012
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Originally posted by Spyro
Screamtina is no real comparison though, I can't think of any other singer (okay, maybe Jessie J) who has received much backlash for using...or overusing.. her powerhouse vocals. While on the other hand, there's still people like Bey, Adele, Sia etc who are getting praised all the time and have huge success with it. Of course she shouldn't do it whenever she opens her mouth but she can + should definitely do it more often imo
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agreed.
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Originally posted by Spyro
Nooooo another dance song?? Why not just screw that mess before the movie comes out and instead, just quickly get Carey to impregnate her so that she can transform all those fresh, motherly emotions into Bridge Of Light's worthy successor? ....oh and eventually finish the slayage with a powerful live performance a la Kelly Clarkson? Is that really too much to ask???
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agreed.
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Originally posted by Spyro
Fixed it for you honey
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i can never get enough, so... agreed!
and oohh, i totally flew over that interview... this sounds like a blow me/today's the day sized mess that awaits us for "original" song. i hope it'll be strange/weird dancey like funhouse at least!
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Originally posted by Grenn-O
and oohh, i totally flew over that interview... this sounds like a blow me/today's the day sized mess that awaits us for "original" song. i hope it'll be strange/weird dancey like funhouse at least!
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Judging by the actual movie, I think it's save to say that the song is gonna be weird in some way. But I guess we'll see in .... months..or...weeks? Hey does anyone know when soundtracks are usually getting released? Was it before or after the movie?
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Which songs that you have done together will you especially remember?
"Who knew surprised us all. A good song is a good song. It was only when I heard Travis interpret ... Baby One More Time as I realized what incredibly beautiful song it is. (Singing since the chorus of Britney's song loud so it fades out over the garden in Venice.) With great songs, no matter who sings it, the song is dressed. Who Knew has come to deal with different things to me over the years. It is at its most beautiful on acoustic guitar. After I heard Brandi Carlile (alternative country artist) interpret the last year (on a Billboard gala where Pink hailed), I would never sing again himself. It was the perfect song. Max is a master of the craft, really
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Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait. Queen Brandi did what?!? Please tell me there's videos of the Billboard performance!!!
Also, does anyone speak Swedish here? I'd really like to know what she meant with "I would never sing again himself" Weird
http://storytelling.di.se/max-martin/4/
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I doubt Who Knew would sound the same from anyone else. It's one of her most personal and well-written songs, that's why it works so amazingly.
Who gave the interview anyway? I couldn't figure it out.
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Member Since: 6/24/2012
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Originally posted by Spyro
Judging by the actual movie, I think it's save to say that the song is gonna be weird in some way. But I guess we'll see in .... months..or...weeks? Hey does anyone know when soundtracks are usually getting released? Was it before or after the movie?
Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait. Queen Brandi did what?!? Please tell me there's videos of the Billboard performance!!!
Also, does anyone speak Swedish here? I'd really like to know what she meant with "I would never sing again himself" Weird
http://storytelling.di.se/max-martin/4/
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yeah, i heard that brandi carlile sang who knew. i think there were pictures of her at the event, but not from the performance. and don't ask for videos, that's too much to ask for... remember what crappy insta-30sec quality videos we get when pink herself performs?
the thing is, as much as i like who knew acoustically, i just like the full band arrangement much, much more. those violins HAVE to hit with the last chorus. they just have. even if they come from keyboards.
lemme ask on pp if the swedes over there can translate it.
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Originally posted by alrightsir
I doubt Who Knew would sound the same from anyone else. It's one of her most personal and well-written songs, that's why it works so amazingly.
Who gave the interview anyway? I couldn't figure it out.
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i think it's an interview with pink about working with max.
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Originally posted by alrightsir
I doubt Who Knew would sound the same from anyone else. It's one of her most personal and well-written songs, that's why it works so amazingly.
Who gave the interview anyway? I couldn't figure it out.
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True...but that's also coming from someone who did the Try choreography on stage and then afterwards told us that Psy delivered the best performance of the night.
Oh and the interview is from 2 weeks ago when Max won the PolarMusic Price and they asked a couple of pop artists to share their experience with him
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so, i asked at the pp boards and our user Little_Peculiar was kind enough to translate the article
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Venice Beach. The expression "Go west" ends here. You cant get further west in America.
At the same time as long waves are rolling in from the Pacific Ocean all kinds of dreamers are parading back and forth along the beach. People on inlines, tattooed punk rockers, dancing hippies, sun loving bodybuilders, stoned preachers, sellers of medicinal marijuana, and tshirts with 2pac and Bob Marley everywhere.
A few blocks from the beach its a bit calmer but you can feel the special character of Venice here too. Everything moves a bit slower here than the rest of LA. People park tandem bikes outside wholefood stores and drink green tea in mugs.
Next to a place that sells some kind of holistic juice - pretty good! - there is a small residential building with a pointed roof and a garden stuffed with buddhist statues and objects.
Against all odds this turns out to be a recording studio. The friendly owner wears loose tie-dyes and well fitted shoes while showing us around. The artist who is recording new music today is Pink, an artist who sold over 130 million records. 2009 she was listed as one of the "Pop Artists of The Decade".
Her clothing of the day reminds me of Crocodile Dundee. She introduces herself with "Hi, Im Alecia".
She was born as Alecia Beth Moore in a small town in Pennsylvania. Her mother was a nurse, her dad a Vietnam vet. The divorced when she was 10 years old. Alecia went through different phases - skater, hiphop, rave - before she started singing in a band. She took her artist name, Pink, from a character in Quentin Tarantinos movie Reservoir Dogs.
Pink Started working with Max Martin first for her 4th album, Im Not Dead from 2006. Before that she had done her 3d album with Punk legend Tim Armstrong from Rancid, an album that wasnt a sales success.
"The funniest about mine and Maxs relationship is that none of us originally wanted to work together", says Pink.
"Or, it wasnt that we didnt want to, but none of us jumped up and down out of joy. We started with me buying 3 bottles of wine. We made a deal that we wouldnt try to write something until we got through the first bottle. It took away all the pressure".
Two of the songs they wrote together became top 10s, U + Ur Hand and Who Knew, the latter with lyrics about a friend of Pinks who died from an overdose at age 14.
Max Martin and Pink have continued to work together since. So What from 2008 became Pinks first Billboard #1 and Max Martins 4th. The opening lyric catches the listeners attention immediately "I guess I just lost my husband" a comment about her divorce.
The base to So What was written by Johan "Shellback" Schuster, a friend of Max Martins wifes brother, a death metal singer and hardcore drummer from Karlshamn that Max Martin allowed to "make coffee" at the studio. Shellback has now got nine Billboard #1 and is the second most successful songwriter through times.
Even Raise Your Glass from 2010, written by Pink, Max Martin and Shellback topped Billboard.
"Max is a musician through and through. Hes famous for pop music. The singles guy, ok, the songwriter people hire when they want a hit. But his knowledge of music are so broad. He is such a closet punk. He knows so much about music, he surprises me all the time. Its very easy to fall in love with him", says Pink.
-What is Max Martins secret?
"I dont know. Some people just hear things. He is a genius. When you dont limit yourself to one genre, when you let yourself be open to anything... Its about creating. Its magic. Because how do you really create, how do you explain it? Max is so good at hearing things that you get angry. I listen to something, realize it doesnt work, then he comes along and hears exactly what the problem is. Why cant I do that?"
-What songs have you made together that you remember especially?
"Who Knew surprised us all. A good song is a good song. It was first when I heard Travis do his version of.. Baby One More Time that i realized what an extremely beautiful song that is. (then sings the chorus to Britneys song so loudly it rings out over the garden in Venice.) With really good songs it doesnt matter who sings them, how the song is dressed. Who Knew has come to mean different things to me over the years. Its the most beautiful played on an acoustic guitar. After I heard Brandi Carlile (alternative country artist) do it last year (on a Billboard as a tribute to Pink) I never want to sing it myself again. It was the perfect song. Max is a master at his craft, really."
-Youre known as a fantastic singer. How is it as a singer to work with Max?
"What he does foremost is to hold me back. I tend to over sing. I always have to "take it to the church". The louder i scream, the better it feels. In the studio, in life. But hes good at saying: 'Stop, take a deep breath, simplify it'. Good chefs says the best ingredient is the one you leave out of the pot. Its the same about music productions."
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thanks, anna!
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